Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - Carson City - Full Court

Tim Wilson, P.E. vs. Pahrump Fair Water, LLC
Docket Number: 77722
Carson City - 10:00 A.M. - Full Court

This case tests the State Engineer’s authority to regulate the drilling of new domestic wells in an over-appropriated, statutorily “designated” basin.   By order issued December 2017, later amended on July 12, 2018, the State Engineer “prohibited the drilling of any new domestic well” in the Pahrump Valley Hydrographic Basin, unless the landowner first obtains, and then relinquishes, 2 acre feet annually (afa) of existing rights in the basin—2 afa being the amount statutorily allowed for a domestic well under NRS 534.180(1).

ISSUES:

The district court invalidated the State Engineer’s order on multiple grounds, including that the State Engineer lacked statutory authority to restrict domestic-well drilling under NRS 534.180 and erred in issuing the order without affording interested landowners notice and the opportunity to be heard. The State Engineer appeals and urges in support of reversal the provisions in NRS 534.110(8) and NRS 534.120(1).

Disclaimer:

This synopsis is intended to provide only general information about this case before the Nevada Supreme Court.  It is not intended to be all-inclusive or reflect all positions of the parties.  To access the documents that have been filed in this matter, type the docket number into the court’s case search page: https://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/public/caseSearch.do

Guzman (Wilber) vs. Dist. Ct. (State)
Docket Number: 79079
Carson City - 10:30 A.M. - Full Court

This petition for a writ of prohibition or mandamus challenges the Washoe County grand jury’s jurisdictional authority to inquire into and return an indictment on offenses that were committed in Douglas County.

ISSUES:

The primary issue in this case concerns the meaning of “territorial jurisdiction” under NRS 172.105.

Disclaimer:

This synopsis is intended to provide only general information about this case before the Nevada Supreme Court.  It is not intended to be all-inclusive or reflect all positions of the parties.  To access the documents that have been filed in this matter, type the docket number into the court’s case search page: https://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/public/caseSearch.do